You should grab a burnisher for that card scraper…

Looks like it’s only ITS sequencing (“barcoding”) which is really old/cheap technology compared to modern whole genome sequencing (PacBio + HiC, etc). It’s a very limited view of the genome, but still useful for broad phylogenetic analysis though, and definitely worthwhile since it’ll be a while before we have a meaningful fraction of fungal species fully sequenced. I suspect there isn’t much grant money out there for fungal diversity…

If you’re going to try it, my advice: mix some very fine sanding dust (maybe 120 or so) with some poly with a putty knife until it’s a really thick paste, and then jam it into the cracks… it’ll shrink a little so be liberal with it and just sand it before you do the final finish. If you’re really artsy too, you can actually paint on matching grain with acrylic and an incredibly fine brush to help it match. I’ve also just filled up cracks with sawdust and applied a few drops of poly, but it never seems to match quite as well for me that way.

I actually need to try something new for my next oil finish project too, so I’ll be keeping an eye on this post, haha.

Always worth doing a test piece first. I haven’t had any good results with glue (wood or CA), but if I’m finishing with polyurethane, making a filler with the same poly as the ‘glue’ is next to perfect.

I’m going to have to try this! Very curious about just how hard it turns out to be in the end.

Crown land, sure. But they even banned access to things like small city parks with trees. That’s just crazy to me, I’m sorry.